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Pos*te`ri*or"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. postÈrioritÈ.] The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority.

Pos*te"ri*or*ly (?), adv. Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.

Pos*te"ri*ors (?), n. pl. The hinder parts, as of an animal's body. Swift.

Pos*ter"i*ty (?), n. [L. posteritas: cf. F. postÈritÈ. See Posterior.] 1. The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham.

If [the crown] should not stand in thy posterity.

Shak.

2. Succeeding generations; future times. Shak.

Their names shall be transmitted to posterity.

Shak.

Their names shall be transmitted to posterity.

Smalridge.

Pos"tern (?), n. [OF. posterne, posterle, F. poterne, fr. L. posterula, fr. posterus coming after. See Posterior.] 1. Originally, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate.

He by a privy postern took his flight.

Spenser.

Out at the postern, by the abbey wall.

Shak.

2. (Fort.) A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks. Mahan.

Pos"tern, a. Back; being behind; private. "The postern door." Dryden.

Pos"te*ro- (&?;). A combining form meaning posterior, back; as, postero-inferior, situated back and below; postero-lateral, situated back and at the side.

Post`ex*ist" (?), v. i. [Pref. post- + exist.] To exist after; to live subsequently. [Obs. or R.]

Post`ex*ist"ence (?), n. Subsequent existence.

Post`ex*ist"ent (?), a. Existing or living after. [R.] "Postexistent atoms." Cudworth.

Post"fact` (?), a. [See Post-, and Fact.] Relating to a fact that occurs after another.

Post"fact`, n. A fact that occurs after another. "Confirmed upon the postfact." Fuller.

||Post`fac"tum (?), n. [LL.] (Rom. & Eng. Law) Same as Postfact.

Post"-fine` (?), n. [Pref. post- + fine.] (O. Eng. Law) A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands, when the same was fully passed; -- called also the king's silver.

Post"fix (?), n.; pl. Postfixes (#). [Pref. post- + -fix, as in prefix: cf. F. postfixe.] (Gram.) A letter, syllable, or word, added to the end of another word; a suffix. Parkhurst.

Post*fix" (?), v. t. To annex; specifically (Gram.), to add or annex, as a letter, syllable, or word, to the end of another or principal word; to suffix. Parkhurst.